Architecture Rules is a Java library that allows aprogrammer to assert code's architecture via unittests or ant tasks. This test is able to assertthat specific packages do not depend on others andis able to check for and report on cyclicdependencies among your project's packages andclasses. This project wraps a industry acceptedJDepend to simplify the process of maintaining asolid software architecture.License: The Apache License 2.0Changes:
This release included a report class creating the cyclic redundancy, made testArchitecture() public, added configuration method chaining, included a license file, added support for wildcards, and provided an API for retrieving the list of violations. Exceptions should now implement an ArchitectureRulesException. Meaningful defaults were provided with the Maven plugin. A classpath conflict with common-io and Spring was fixed.

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